"You don't get to be up here without standing on the shoulders of a mountain of people and there's no time to thank everyone, I just would like to try to thank one person properly and say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I've ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer," he said onstage. "If she hadn't taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today. So, sweetheart, thank you."

Ryan and Emma during a rare appearance. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

He also took the time to thank the couple's daughters, Esmeralda, 2, and 8-month-old Amada before dedicating his award to Eva's late brother.

"You hear what it's like to have kids, and all the clichés are true. I felt I knew that everything would be different, but until you experience that, there's no way to really know what people mean," he told GQ. " ... And in my situation, Eva's the dream mother, and they're dream babies, and it's like a dream that I'm having right now. I'm dreaming it all. So I feel so lucky."

He continued, "There was nothing kind of premeditated about it, you know. It just suddenly was: My life had changed. And thank God it did."